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08/27/2025

Mid-Year Check-In: Are You Crushing Your Creative Goals?

Welcome to the Artists Soar! In episode 7, we’re hitting pause for a mid-year check-in on our creative goals! Are you on track with your artistic dreams, or need a reset to spark your inspiration? Join us as we share practical tips to evaluate your progress, tweak your plans, and reignite your passion for art. Perfect for women artists (and anyone chasing creative dreams) who want to stay focused and thrive in their art career! 🔔 Subscribe for weekly art business hacks, painting tips, and creative inspiration on our Primary Channel Artists Soar or wherever you consume your Podcasts Connect with us: Julie McCullough: https://artinthestudio.com/ Rachel Harchanko: https://rachelbelleart.com/ Stephanie Weaver: https://stephanieweaverartist.com/

08/27/2025

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25 min
03/22/2023

Spoonflower Tips and Tricks From Professional Surface Pattern Designer Carrie Cantwell

Jules, Rachel, and Stephanie chat with star Spoonflower seller, Carrie Cantwell who share with us her experiences on how to succeed on spoonflower. If you have a question you'd like us to discuss feel free to email us at hello@artistssoar.com Key Talking Points Carrie is another lovely artist who took a leap of faith to leave a stable job to create something of her own. She discovered Spoonflower as a result of wanting material to cover her chairs! She loved the quality! She was buyer and became a contributor. Spoonflower is a great place to get your patterns seen and get found through the challenges. To help get found, research your tags to see what is doing well and why - all this is available on spoonflower. Evaluate what tag is selling. Spoonflower is how Peppermint Magazine found Carrie. The key is to create the work you want to create and use the same work to create different colorways. Learned how to master Photoshop and keyboard shortcuts to speed up the process. Carrie's class available on skillshare is fantastic to learn how to create a half-draw pattern in 15 minutes. It didn't start off that quickly, experience and looking for shortcuts is key to speed. Ordering proofs from spoonflower is a must to ensure your patterns are working seamlessly. This ensures integrity for the customer. To help keep down the cost for the proofs, Carrie will wait until she has 42 designs and then will create a cheater quilt/patchwork print. She'll use the patchwork quilt as gift wrap! What a great idea! Raspberry Creek is another fabric print-on-demand site. Benjamin Moore and Pantone have colors of the year to help you find the colorways for trends. WHEW! That was a lot of fabulous information!!! We'd love to hear from you, what questions do you have for us three girls with the gift for gab? Email us at hello@artistssoar.com Rise with us! On Artists Soar! For More Information and Fabulous Resources: For more information from Carrie, be sure to go to: https://www.carriecantwell.com https://www.instagram.com/carriecantwellart https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoa3wtyAse-qCwcxDni9eUg https://skillshare.eqcm.net/3P47Qn Our Websites and Shops Are you an avid reader? Then sign up for Rachel's newsletter here: https://bubblybibbly.com/ Love illustrations and bright colors? Then sign up for Jule's newsletter here: https://www.juliemstudios.com/ Want to learn how to paint, or be part of a growing and active community? Or just love painting? Then sign up for Stephanie's newsletter here: https://www.stephanieweaverartist.com/artist-newsletter Got a Listener Question? Email us at: hello@artistssoar.com

03/22/2023

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48 min
10/19/2022

Marketing and driving traffic to your web page

Jules, Rachel, and Stephanie discuss what they do to market their artwork, and services and drive traffic to their web page. If you have a question you'd like us to discuss feel free to email us at hello@artistssoar.com Artist Spotlight Julie Noles - Pet Portrait Artists https://www.julienoles.com/ Featured Artist On Positive Painters Key talking points: Using tools to help better your chances of getting found in Google that focus on Search Engine Optimization (SEO). RankIQ UberSuggest Create long, helpful blog posts that people can download. Stephanie and Julie use SocialBee to spread the word about their websites. Rachel uses Facebook Ads. She's also tried Google Ads. Stephanie also uses Facebook and Pinterest Ads. We'd love to hear to drive people to drive traffic to your website, email us at hello@artistssoar.com Rise with us! On Artists Soar! Resources Mentioned Art Business Checklist and Video Guide- make your lives easier as you define your art business. Artist Gifts And Apparel - artlovergifts.com RanqIQ - aids with article writing for Search Engine Optimization. Ubersuggest - aids with keyword research and competitor research. SocialBee - for scheduling blog posts on social media. SocialBee resources. Youtube.com/artfurpaws Our Websites and Shops Stephanie: https://www.stephanieweaverartist.com/ https://www.etsy.com/shop/artfurpaws Julie: https://www.juliemstudios.com/ https://www.etsy.com/shop/peacockblueart Rachel: https://bubblybibbly.com/ https://www.etsy.com/shop/BBStudioShop https://www.etsy.com/shop/mothersrecipes Got a Listener Question? Email us at: hello@artistssoar.com

10/19/2022

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28 min
12/08/2021

Email Marketing for Artists: How often should you be contacting your patrons?

Jules, Rachel, and Stephanie discuss how often you should be contacting your patrons - what is the proper number of emails to introduce your product, yourself, etc. Ideas Segment your email list and send the information the audience requested. Document your email sequence (Stephanie uses Canva) Marketing experts say it takes 7-12 touches to make a sale. Save the emails that make you want to click as reference emails in the future. Check your email 1 - 2 times a day. Have a customer appreciation week/month. - Check out Jules Advent Calendar (available for the month of December 2021) What is your opinion on how many emails are too much? Email us at hello@artistssoar.com Rise with us! On Artists Soar! Resources Mentioned Canva Advent Calendar on Jules McCullough's website - get freebies and gifts from Jules. Mailchimp - an email provider that Rachel uses Holiday Planning Guide Email Swipe Files Our Websites and Shops Stephanie: https://www.stephanieweaverartist.com/ https://www.etsy.com/shop/artfurpaws Julie: https://www.juliemstudios.com/ https://www.etsy.com/shop/peacockblueart Rachel: https://bubblybibbly.com/ https://www.etsy.com/shop/BBStudioShop https://www.etsy.com/shop/mothersrecipes Got a Listener Question? Email us at: hello@artistssoar.com

12/08/2021

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23 min
12/22/2021

What are you doing or do to stay positive?

Jules, Rachel, and Stephanie discuss what we do to stay positive. Key talking points: acknowledge the negative, ignoring it will cause it to fester once you acknowledge the negative, then find the action that is needed to move forward remove yourself from the negative people - even it is an email, delete it. evaluate the painful situations to figure out the lessons that you are to learn to move forward. set realistic expectations...you are not that person you are comparing yourself to. This is your journey. It is ok to change your path. What do we do to stay centered and positive: do our hobbies, prayer, meditation, create a different atmosphere be still, get grounded, get outside and be still, write down your negative thoughts and burn the papers (safely) listen to Insight Timer to help reset your mindset Do some positive affirmations Write and keep notes of appreciation - "Sugar cubes" Do a headstand We'd love to hear what you do to stay positive, email us at hello@artistssoar.com Rise with us! On Artists Soar! Resources Mentioned The previous episode with listener questions: Listener Q&A Diversify your product offerings using Print on Demand Insight time - marvelous app to help you meditate To aid your efforts in doing a headstand - Check out Feet Up Our Websites and Shops Stephanie: https://www.stephanieweaverartist.com/ https://www.etsy.com/shop/artfurpaws Julie: https://www.juliemstudios.com/ https://www.etsy.com/shop/peacockblueart Rachel: https://bubblybibbly.com/ https://www.etsy.com/shop/BBStudioShop https://www.etsy.com/shop/mothersrecipes Got a Listener Question? Email us at: hello@artistssoar.com

12/22/2021

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29 min
11/15/2023

Resilience and Renewal: Artistry Reborn After Cancer - Part 2 -Restarting

In this episode, artists Rachel, Julie, and Stephanie talk about why we went radio silent for 6 months and how we are restarting. Life forced us to think about and pray about life as our best friend Jules McCullough was diagnosed with cancer. If you have a question you'd like us to discuss feel free to email us at hello@artistssoar.com Key Talking Points How do you restart when you feel like you've lost your momentum. As we evolve, so does our art. Life is too short to do things that you hate. When you are forced to restart, it makes you stand still and observe to see a direction. We'd love to hear from you, what are your thoughts on what we chatted about, Email us at hello@artistssoar.com Rise with us! On Artists Soar! Our Websites and Shops Are you an avid reader? Then sign up for Rachel's newsletter here: https://bubblybibbly.com/ Love illustrations and bright colors? Then sign up for Jule's newsletter here: https://www.juliemstudios.com/ Want to learn how to paint, or be part of a growing and active community? Or just love painting? Then sign up for Stephanie's newsletter here: https://www.stephanieweaverartist.com/artist-newsletter Got a Listener Question? Email us at: hello@artistssoar.com

11/15/2023

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36 min
06/29/2022

How authentic should you be on Social Media? Mom guilt and double standards.

Jules, Rachel, and Stephanie discuss how authentic should you be on social media and with your audience? If you have a question you'd like us to discuss feel free to email us at hello@artistssoar.com Key talking points: How curated do you need to be? How much passion should you put into the posts? What goes on behind the scenes of some of these "influencers"? How are individual artists putting together their Reels? We have so much more to get "camera-ready" or "Pinterest Perfect" as women. The double-standard of it all... We get real about what we feel about trying to be "perfect" all the time or everything for everybody...It's exhausting... Women supporting women...surround yourself with women who empower, encourage, and support you. We are all going through stuff...be kind to one another. We are keeping it real, let us know what you do to keep your social media real, email us at hello@artistssoar.com Rise with us! On Artists Soar! Resources Mentioned Check out our Instagram Episode podcast Our Websites and Shops Stephanie: https://www.stephanieweaverartist.com/ https://www.etsy.com/shop/artfurpaws Julie: https://www.juliemstudios.com/ https://www.etsy.com/shop/peacockblueart Rachel: https://bubblybibbly.com/ https://www.etsy.com/shop/BBStudioShop https://www.etsy.com/shop/mothersrecipes Got a Listener Question? Email us at: hello@artistssoar.com

06/29/2022

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26 min
04/12/2023

Life Keeps Getting In The Way of Your Art? Absorb the wisdom of Fiber Artist Susan Hensel

Jules, Rachel, and Stephanie chat with Susan Hensel who has been an artist for the last 50 years as a seasoned fiber artist who has seen a lot of changes for women! From being ignored by professors in the 1950s to now where women are still balancing the multiple roles that have vs. the ones they want. In this episode, we embrace all the wisdom from Susan Hensel in dealing with fractured times and staying motivated in a man's world. If you have a question you'd like us to discuss feel free to email us at hello@artistssoar.com Key Talking Points The key is to stay flexible and look for opportunities to present your work and help others present their work. Artsy.net is an online platform for galleries to research and present artwork. During the pandemic, Susan began working with Artsy.net to help her small gallery show artists. Claim your space. Do a little something in the space of time that you have with people you trust. Find a way to create. Keep your art and yourself as a priority. "You are going to make a tremendous amount of trash." Give away the idea of perfection. "Creation over Perfection" Be open to reapproaching the creativity that feeds you. Voice can travel through media. WHEW! That was a lot of fabulous information!!! We'd love to hear from you, what questions do you have for us three girls with the gift for gab? Email us at hello@artistssoar.com Rise with us! On Artists Soar! For More Information and Fabulous Resources: For more information from Susan susanhenselprojects.com Be sure to signup for her newsletter! Gallery: susanhenselgallery.com Instagram: @susan_hensel_multimedia_artist Our Websites and Shops Are you an avid reader? Then sign up for Rachel's newsletter here: https://bubblybibbly.com/ Love illustrations and bright colors? Then sign up for Jule's newsletter here: https://www.juliemstudios.com/ Want to learn how to paint, or be part of a growing and active community? Or just love painting? Then sign up for Stephanie's newsletter here: https://www.stephanieweaverartist.com/artist-newsletter Got a Listener Question? Email us at: hello@artistssoar.com

04/12/2023

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43 min
09/02/2023

Books that made you break up with an author

In this episode, Carmen and Rachel talk about books that made them break up with an author. They discuss authors that they won’t read. Let us know if you’ve ever broken up with an author, and let us know why. And we want to know what could happen, if anything, to have you go back and try another title by that author. And remember, Neal Sedaka said, “Breaking up is hard to do”, but Carmen and Rachel would disagree. The post Books that made you break up with an author: Episode 92 appeared first on Bubbly Bibbly.

09/02/2023

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27 min
05/23/2024

TBR's: What NOT To Do!

In this episode, Carmen and Rachel talk about what NOT to do if you are trying to shrink your TBR. Let us know what your Goodreads account is – we want to follow you! And remember, some people see a bookstore, we see a huge TBR pile! The post TBR’s: What NOT To Do! Episode 107 appeared first on Bubbly Bibbly.

05/23/2024

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28 min

We love books and bubbly. We are two friends who offer a curated book review section and a hilarious podcast. We regularly interview authors and discuss books, drinks and stories from our lives.

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Mid-Year Check-In: Are You Crushing Your Creative Goals?

Spoonflower Tips and Tricks From Professional Surface Pattern Designer Carrie Cantwell

Marketing and driving traffic to your web page

Email Marketing for Artists: How often should you be contacting your patrons?

What are you doing or do to stay positive?

Resilience and Renewal: Artistry Reborn After Cancer - Part 2 -Restarting

How authentic should you be on Social Media? Mom guilt and double standards.

Life Keeps Getting In The Way of Your Art? Absorb the wisdom of Fiber Artist Susan Hensel

Books that made you break up with an author

TBR's: What NOT To Do!

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